REFLECTOR: Matco vs Cleveland

[Scott Derrick]

Kurt,

I've flown into Mid Valley twice in my Std Velocity with no problem at 
all in getting in. Stopped before halfway down the runway.  Taking off 
generated all the pucker power!

I have the original 96 Matco's'.  I am having them upgraded by Matco to 
handle the bigger engine and gross weight, per recommendations by the 
factory.

Scott

NMFlyer1 at aol.com wrote:

> I have heard many things about the Brake comparison. Recently one 
> Velocity builder told me that Matco was sold some time back. That 
> caused quite a few problems in quality and customer service, so the 
> old owners bought it back. I was told that a set of Matcos was sent 
> back, rebuilt/upgraded and now work fine.
>  
> I had not heard about the brake pad pain in the a$$ (PITA) and that 
> sounds like a bonus for Clevelands.
>  
> I also heard that the Cleveland kit was pretty spensive (considering I 
> haven't even used the brakes that I have yet)!.
>  
> I have the 173 Elite FG, and was wondering whether I really need to 
> consider some form of brake mod at this point. Either sending the 
> Matcos back for an upgrade, or switching to Clevelands.  I thought I 
> recalled a Velocity factory rep saying that the Matcos did well on the 
> smaller airplane.
>   It would be nice to have adequate braking since Im flying out of a 
> high density altitude airport, and only have 4300' of runway. But I 
> dot want to spend more time fixing things that aren't broken.
>  
> Any input?. 
>  
> Kurt Winker
> 173 FGE
> 325 HP Alum. V-6 Chevy
>  
>
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